Video: McBride publisher Iain Dale brawls with Brighton protester

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Verbal battles over Damian McBride’s memoirs descended into actual fisticuffs
at the Labour conference today as the former spin doctor’s publisher tackled
a protester trying to disrupt his publicity drive.

Iain Dale, who runs Biteback Publishing, was involved in a scuffle with the
man on the Brighton seafront in an effort to stop him appearing on screen
behind Mr McBride during a series of media interviews.

The protester — a familiar face outside party conferences, where he regularly
appears with banners opposing smoking or nuclear energy — managed to get
himself into shot as Mr McBride spoke to ITV1’s Daybreak.